Java Spring Boot Full Stack

INTRODUCTION

The platform, originally developed in 1991 by Sun Microsystems - for interactive cable television, known as “Java” modified over the span of 29 years to become one of the most powerful and practiced full stack technology by open-source programming world.

Technology giants like Facebook (React.js) and Netflix (Restful Microservices) are few to mention among the beneficiaries of Java Spring boot full stack.

Memory efficiency, re-usability, entities binding, maven dependencies, micro-services architecture , dependency-injection and spring security are among the salient features of Java Spring-boot full stack. It may be used for enterprise level application development due to its flexibility and ability to accept rapidly growing development changes. [1]

Java Spring Boot full stack discussed in this report will compromise of following architecture [2]:

Frontend will comprise of JavaScript based technologies because they offer memory efficient front end , open-source libraries and smooth connectivity with backend that may run over various platforms. React Js is JavaScript library developed by Facebook and then open-sourced for development improvement. It is fun to code and easy to bind with backed.

Backend comprises of Java Spring Boot in Maven based project that is easy to bind/integrate any library or third party class in any project. Microservices based architecture is light weight to code, reusable and secure. Restful Application Program Interface ( Rest API) performs all the communication between a database and programming language.

Oracle Database provides high integrity of data storage and enables smooth connectivity with Java based development platforms in enterprise applications.

Database

Oracle Database is an efficient data storage with secure data access and high performance ability. Spring Boot application binds with a data source (Oracle) using an Oracle driver (Jdbc) and allows a user to automatically create Entities using database schema.

Spring boot provides object-relational mapping that is similar to entity framework. Entities are generated and Repositories (JPA Repositories) are formed to perform (SQL operations CRUD). Repositories are interface that by default offer coding logic for performing Create, Read, Update or Delete (CRUD) operation on a table/view.

A comparison of databases is as following:

Which is Better – MySQL or SQL Server?

Which is Better –Mongo Db or Oracle?

Both the technologies work on the concept of storing data as per schema (table storage). MySQL is inclined more towards selecting the data to facilitate data display, update and save the data again. It is a bit weaker than SQL Server in terms of data insertion and deletion.

If you are a large enterprise with massive data go with SQL Server.

For individual users and small to medium-sized companies where the amount of data and work required is not that massive you can go with MySQL.

Oracle is definitely the top provider for data management services, when schema design is not constantly changing. NoSQL databases are a great revolution, and they provide a new way of data modeling and handling.

For Enterprise level application, when a database may face multiple hits, an operation may be memory/processing costly thus Oracle is more suitable in extensive loaded environments.

· SQL Server or Oracle both may be used with Java Spring boot full stack because the xml configurations are auto-generated and no extra line of code needs to be written. Java Stack gives best experience when it is incorporated with Java platforms and to cater Java Spring boot full stack for enterprise level applications, we will prefer Oracle database.

Scaffoldings

Micro Service is an architecture that allows the developers to build and deploy services independently. Each service has its own function and this achieves lightweight model to support business applications. Spring Boot follows a layered architecture in which each layer communicates with the layer directly below or above (hierarchical structure) it.

A JPA repository extends CRUD operations for an entity and reduces the effort of writing extensive coding logic. Following are the sample functionalities that are auto-generated using spring boot on a sample class named ‘user-resource’. The default HTTP request methods shown are: GET , PUT, POST and DELETE.

To avoid complex XML configuration like in C# full stack, spring-boot offers POM file using the spring.io maven dependencies to include third party libraries without any hassle/ extra line of code. A configuration sample is shown as below:

MVC / Project Architecture

A Restful Api architectures allows a web request to communicate to a database. It takes the request and returns the response after following processing:

· Browser / Client requests to Restful Controller (controller contains URL mappings)

· Controller passes request to Service ( a request may contain information in head / body)

· Service takes the parameters, processes the data and passes information back to Controller

· Service also communicates with Repository to access data or perform CRUD operations

· Repository is binding with Entity class, that offers some default data processing operations

· Entity is auto-generated class that has same body like a database object i.e. table.

The above lifecycle consumes auto-generated features of CRUD using spring boot. Entities are auto-scaffolded with classes and cost of writing new code is reduced. Previously mentioned lifecycle scaffolding / data binding with processing is shown as below:

REACT JS Frontend

React is a JavaScript library that specializes in helping developers build user interfaces, or UIs. In terms of websites and web applications. It offers a Virtual DOM to improve an application performance [5].

React communication with spring boot application is as following:

Security

Spring Security is a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. It is the de-facto standard for securing Spring-based applications.

Spring Security is a framework that focuses on providing both authentication and authorization to Java applications. Like all Spring projects, the real power of Spring Security is found in how easily it can be extended to meet custom requirements.[6]

Difference with ASP Core

Java full stack is remarkably fast, at the expense of lots of memory usage, because it’s compiled. Meaning it generates Java Virtual Machine (JVM) byte code, a machine learning language that only the system can read. Java code may operate on variety of operating system (Windows, Linux, OS) and it is known for its backward compatibility. XML configurations are reduced and light weighted as compared to ASP.NET stack.

C# Stack is heavily tailored to Microsoft and it isn’t optimized for web development. It may be preferred on projects requiring medium performance and lower open source integrations. [3]

The main disadvantages of ASP.NET is that its upkeep is resource intensive. Additionally, ASP.NET uses far more web server resources than Java, PHP or other languages, so it requires either extremely better servers or a greater number of them.

While developing a desktop based application with limited user base, ASP core may be a better option. But when it comes to extensive web based application development that will face hundreds of hits over the network, Java full stack is the best solution.

Conclusion

Spring-boot, is a flexible technology. Code can be written and added to an existing application in a matter of hours. More importantly, it increasingly incorporates some really advanced software techniques, such as aspect-oriented programming, dependency injection, inversion of control, XML-based light configuration, auto-wired objects, etc. As programmers, we ignore such trends at our peril.

An online poll between the popularity of Java / ASP a showed, 85% of developers using Java full stack for enterprise application development.[4]